Padma Lakshmi Reveals Extreme Workout Regimen

popeater.com:

Although Padma Lakshmi gave birth to her first child in February, you'd never know it by looking at her slim physique. The former model isn't coy about the rigorous workouts she endures to keep her figure, though, adding she's not only combating baby weight but all those extra calories she consumes on the 'Top Chef' set.

At The ELLEments of Personal Style book launch party in NYC, she told PopEater: "I woke up at 6AM, I nursed. Then I ran up and down 70 flights of stairs. Then I had breakfast, then went to the gym and lifted weights for an hour. Then I walked home."

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Comments

[lioness76]

04:57 PM on 10/29/2010

Hitting the stairmaster & then lifting weights isn't an extreme workout regimen.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:12 PM on 10/29/2010

Must be nice to have all this free time to do all that

[emanrollins]

11:36 PM on 10/28/2010

Gold digging also burns many calories.

[olddognewtrick]

02:20 PM on 10/28/2010

Padma's Padding...

[DrJimmy]

11:08 AM on 10/28/2010

It's only extreme when it becomes your job! Are they hard workouts, I'm sure they are but exteme means pushing yourself to the line...all the time...that is Hardcore...that is extreme!!

[tanya1111]

10:17 AM on 10/28/2010

sorry but if you date a sharpei-esque 70 year old billionaire you are gross...

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/padma_teddy_iDP7WrDxlkGKTtQp90AaNL

[Redemption Song II]

10:29 AM on 10/28/2010

Lakshmi has a financially calabrated gross-o-meter.

[mytwocents02]

03:00 PM on 10/28/2010

She can't see the wrinkles behind all those $ signs.

[tanya1111]

04:25 PM on 10/28/2010

See I couldn't think about money looking at such a thing... the nausea would be to overwhelming.

[Samantha Monteleone]

11:06 PM on 10/28/2010

She must be pulling an Anna Nicole Smith.

[DandaPanda]

09:53 AM on 10/28/2010

regardless she is still a giant oaf

[chardonnay48]

05:54 AM on 10/28/2010

Good for her.

[Carbon Forteetoo]

02:22 AM on 10/28/2010

That's one hell of a scar on her arm. You'd think she'd have a plastic surgeon fix that.

[tanya1111]

10:03 AM on 10/28/2010

you should read up on, there is no way to fix a scar that big or that deep, it was hidden for years when she was a model then people started booking her for the edgy quality it brought... anyways it became her trademark.

[Highball]

09:14 PM on 10/28/2010

No. She feels it is important. And the accident that caused it, she describes as one of the most beautiful moments in her life (even though she needed surgery, broke her hip and other bones).

[Nicole Dixson]

10:11 PM on 10/27/2010

It takes what it takes.

[ptrgamb]

10:02 PM on 10/27/2010

I have to assume everyone who works at HP is a couch potato. What is described here is hardly an "extreme" workout.

[BcemXAHA]

08:10 PM on 10/27/2010

How is this extreme? I do cardio 6 to 7 days a week 45 minutes minimum either running at 5 miles per hour or more, and then I immediately lift for at least 30 minutes different body part each day. I don't consider myself extreme, I don't see how her routine is extreme.

Biggest Loser routines are insane.... Padma ain't got nothing on their workout.

[cestpasvrai]

08:40 AM on 10/28/2010

I lift weights for an hour 5 or 6 days a week, and then do cardio for half an hour for about 3-4 days a week. Now I don't think our workouts are nearly as extreme as others ---- but when you take our workouts and compare them to the (non)workout the rest of our nation performs, we are PRETTY hardcore.

[BcemXAHA]

08:49 AM on 10/28/2010

Trudat my friend.

But I still wonder, how is it that I workout so much so hard, watch every protein, fiber, fat and carb (both complex and simple) that enters my body, and don't look as lean as Padma does :).

I bet you what ever you want she's working harder than she's letting us on.

[synergie]

07:26 PM on 10/28/2010

Are you a nursing single mom about to hit 40 and raising an 8 month old as well?

[BcemXAHA]

07:31 PM on 10/28/2010

I'm 43, and two kids, both nursed while I worked out and held a full time job that required traveling 15 weeks out of every year. It's been 5 years since I stopped nursing, but I never stopped working out, and always have since the age of 14. Why do you ask?

[powerhuff]

07:55 PM on 10/27/2010

WHO GIVES A FLYING

[Womanvoter4Obama]

07:52 PM on 10/27/2010

Running stairs is an excellent way to build endurance and lose weight. In high school part of track practice was running stairs. That and nursing will help you lose the baby weight. And I agree with VeggieLove..this is not that extreme. It's good cardio and lifting.

[VeggieLove]

09:34 AM on 10/28/2010

Hmm...based on what you wrote I think I might start adding stairs to my workout regime. Thanks!!

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:10 PM on 10/29/2010

sounds good buy my knees would scream, they hate stairs..

[Womanvoter4Obama]

01:30 PM on 10/29/2010

Flavia..so do mine. All my running is on sidewalks right now..when I can run..fighting asthma as we speak.

[VeggieLove]

06:45 PM on 10/27/2010

Extreme? Training for the Ironman is extreme.